Sportsman&#39;s accessories



May 29, 1956 c. A. cLEMAs SPOR'ISMANS ACCESSORIES Filed Dec. l, 1952 INVEN TOR. CASIMER A. CLEMAS United Satates Patent O SPORTSMANS ACCESSORIES Casimer A. Clemas, St. Paul, Minn.

Application December 1, 1952, Serial No. 323,464

1 Claim. (Cl. 433) The invention relates to decoy anchors, and has for its object to provide for an improved device of this class which adds to the utility, convenience, and durability of such anchors by reason of the improved materials and more particularly the novel construction herein disclosed.

A particular object of the invention is to provide a decoy anchor so constructed as to be easy to stow when not in use, and yet readily and quickly available when needed.

Further objects, advantages, and features of novelty residing in the invention are described in the following specification, and will become evident from a study of the attached drawing, which forms a part hereof. In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a sketch illustrating the appearance of my improved decoy anchor ready for use, parts being broken away for illustrative purposes;

Figure 2 is a view generally similar to Figure 1, but showing my anchor ready for stowage; and

Figure 3 shows my .improved anchor stowed with its decoy.

Referring now to Figures 1 and 2, the anchor is shown to comprise a weight of conventional outline and a connecting loop 11. According to my invention, loop 11 is made of stranded, highly ilexible stainless steel cable. The two ends 12 and 13 of the cable are fastened together by a mechanical clip 14, and beyond the point of attachment of this clip the ends may be unlaid as illustrated in Figure 1, to assist in securing the loop to weight 10. The most satisfactory means of making this connection is by permanently casting the clip and the unlaid ends of the cable into the weight, which is ordinarily of lead, but other and equivalent expedients will occur to those skilled in the art.

Mounted on the strands of loop 11 is a sliding bead 15, movable between a iirst position near the weight and a second position near the bight of the loop. Bead 15 frictionally engages the strands of the loop, so that it is held in any position therealong.

Near the center of the loop there is shown attached by a simple knot 16, an anchor cord 17 whose length iS determined at the desire of the user, to be sufficiently long to allow the decoy 20, to the under side of which its other end is fastened, to oat with suitable freedom with the wind and the currents of the body of Water in which it is supported. It will be appreciated that by the use of stainless steel as the material of which loop 11 is made, rotting of anchor cord 17 by corrosion from inferior materials is eliminated. It will be further appreciated that wear, stress, and eventual failure at the point where loop 11 enters weight 10 is minimized by the use of a exible semi-rigid material for the loop.

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When it is desired to stow the decoy, the anchor cord is wound about it in a figure-of-eight configuration, but some means of securing each anchor individually to its respective ldecoy is desirable, to avoid a tedious interval of untangling each time the decoys are to be set out. To accomplish this it has been known to use loops of solid wire and to hang them over the heads of the decoys, but this was subject to the disadvantage that the anchors could easily fall olf again, that it put additional strain on the point of junction between weight and loop, and that the rigid connection resulted in considerable battering of the decoy by the anchor.

According to my invention, the loop 11 is passed over the head of the decoy when cord 17 is stowed as Well as is convenient, and bead 15 is caused to slide along the strands of loop 11 toward the bight thereof until the loop is closed to snugly engage the neck of the decoy. Thereby the anchor is secured to its decoy and cannot come oif to entangle itself with others, and yet it is readily rele'asable when its use is needed.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that I have invented an improved, simple, -durable decoy anchor which has numerous advantages and points of novelty over previously known expedients. The disclosure hereabove is given for illustration only, and the invention is conceived not to be limited thereby, but solely by the broad meaning of the terms in which the following claim is expressed.

I claim as my invention:

In a decoy anchor for maintaining a fowl type of decoy in a substantially stationary position relative to the surface of a body of water, a weight of substantially cylindrical form, having a flange at its lower end only of substantially greater extent than the diameter of the cylinder, said cylinder having its upper end tapered, a substantially non-corrodible flexible semi-rigid cable of loop form having substantially parallel strands with their free ends embedded in the cylinder, said free ends having adjacent the terminals thereof a collar lixed thereto, said collar being adapted to maintain said free ends in embedded condition within the cylinder, and a sleeve provided with a bore of sulicient diameter to frictionally maintain the sleeve in slidable condition on the strands of the loop, whereby the sleeve in one position may engage the upper end of the cylinder and is adapted to be moved and maintained in various positions on the strands of the loop to change the size and shape of the opening provided by the loop to various areas to facilitate application and removal of the loop and, whereby the loop may be expanded to surround the neck of the decoy or may be used to tie a line secured to the decoy.

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